# 114-hr-3062: APPROVAL Act

114-hr-3062, APPROVAL Act, is a 114th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3] (R-AR); status Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 669. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 114-hr-3062
- Congress: 114
- Title: APPROVAL Act
- Status: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 669.
- Introduced: 2015-07-14
- Sponsor: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3] (R-AR)
- Cosponsors: 3
- Policy area: Energy
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act or the APPROVAL Act This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to prohibit the Secretary of Energy and the Administrators of the Western Area Power Administration and of the Southwestern Power Administration from using the power of eminent domain to implement modernization of electricity transmission infrastructure, unless they have received explicit permission to do so by: (1) the state governor and the head of each applicable public utility commission or public service commission of the affected state, and (2) the head of the governing body of each Indian tribe whose land would be affected. An electricity transmission infrastructure project, to the greatest extent practicable, must be sited upon either an existing federal right-of-way or upon federal land managed by either: (1) the Bureau of Land Management, (2) the Forest Service, (3) the Bureau of Reclamation, or (4) the Corps of Engineers.

## Cosponsors (3)

- Rep. Hill, J. French [R-AR-2] (R-AR), 2015-07-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1] (R-AR), 2015-07-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4] (R-AR), 2015-07-14T00:00:00.000Z

## Related bills

- 114-hr-6425: Safeguard Aquaculture Farmers Act
- 114-hr-5180: Food and Fuel Consumer Protection Act of 2016
- 114-hr-4938: Free File Act of 2016
- 114-hr-4773: Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity Act
- 114-hr-4715: RPM Act of 2016
- 114-hr-4614: Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act of 2016

## Sources
- [114-hr-3062 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3062)

## Related
- [114-hr-6425: Safeguard Aquaculture Farmers Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6425)
- [114-hr-5180: Food and Fuel Consumer Protection Act of 2016](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-5180)
- [114-hr-4938: Free File Act of 2016](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-4938)
- [114-hr-4773: Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-4773)
- [114-hr-4715: RPM Act of 2016](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-4715)
- [114-hr-4614: Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act of 2016](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-4614)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-3062 (as of 2025-11-18).